How *unappealing* do you predict straight male romance options will be in DA4?

In Cullen's case, the mod is forcing a romance with a man on a straight guy. It even forces other species on him.  You both seem to imply that it's ok with Cullen, or that it's worst for Dorian because of his history. Am I misunderstanding ?

Tragic. The nature of a video game character has been changed as though they are nothing more than a piece of code. Oh woe, however will we deal with this fact?

Good point. In a video game where murder is common, torture is acceptable, beating the crap out of people on a whim is all well and good, changing the nature of a man[1] is a perfectly acceptable place to draw the line.

Furthermore can someone actually love a video game character? People often talk about "love at first sight" and confuse it with "lust at first sight" so I'm not surprised we're here, but are we really talking about love here? True love? Soul unifying love? Or are you trying to conjure an excuse as to why the behaviour is more inexcusable than any other piece of behaviour people get up to in video games? 

[1]What can change the nature of a man ...

Cullen's story never mentioned his sexuality. His flirt with male!Inquisitor was different than Dorian's flirt with a fem!Inquisitor. But call me a hypocrite, I don't mind. 

You've yet again added nothing with your reply except a re-assertion of a point that has already been dealt with. A reassertion of the point as though it were important, which it isn't. But keep going with that, it doesn't at all make it look like you're full of nothing but air

Making a male character "to romance Dorian", a "female elf" to romance Solas, a "human female" to romance Cullen - all of those actions are in essence programming as you sit down during the character creation. The romance triggers predetermine the gender and the race of the character you create. You are prompted to chose what will meet the TRUE test.

If you start from the other end, by determining first what you want to play and whom you want to romance, you need to review the conditions and adjust them to achieve the outcome if the TRUE test is not satisfied.

In the first case you adjust your protagonist set-up. In the second case you adjust the NPC.

Only if you are going into the game with a plan to run multiple trials or indifferent to the romantic outcomes, you can afford creating character you wish without looking at the conditions.

Now, if you have a small number of trials, you have to place value on playing what you want. If it is all the same to you, no biggie. But if it matters AND it also matters to you which story you want to see, then you need to change the conditions.

I think it is ironic that the DA2 game where the choice of the protagonist is simply binary, the romance conditions are very lenient, but in a game where the protagonist's combinations are far more numerous, the romance conditions are far more elaborate & prohibitive.

"Why not play male protagonist?" is simple to answer. The vast majority of protagonists are males, and romances with males are way lower in number than those with the females. In most games you end up playing a male, and when you get across a game that lets you play a female, it is natural to want to play more females to offset the majority of the male protagonists.

So, yep, DA2 it is.

EDIT: Also, Andromeda, because with biJaal, the number of non-conditioned romances is higher than in the Inquisition.

EDIT: And an athletic & tall female protagonist like a Qunari is almost never occurs.

Another person's sexual orientation is not a slight against you.

I prefer the DA2 way & that's where I feel completely happy.

Only one of them allows me to fire the game and just create a protagonist I feel like playing & do not get a "shouldda played an elf" or "shouldda played a male" messages. Anders does not jump away from Hawke because she does not meet his exacting height standard & he doesn't care what's between your legs, only what's in your heart.

And once again, for all the guests reading this forum, sageoflife is completely unable to understand that Jade Dreamer isn't talking about a person's sexual orientation. This irrationality is what happens when a person allows their feelings and emotions to consume them

For all the guests reading this forum, sageoflife is an abusive man who likes to abuse everyone who doesn't agree with him, but chucks a tantrum when the same treatment is returned. He uses strawmen and other fallacies to give his argument the appearance of weight when in actuality he's just a little kid screaming on the net.

Like how he's changing Jade Dreamer's post to talk about people and not characters. This change gives his post the appearance of ethical weight when in actuality he's once again blasting nothing but hot air.

An intolerant, disgusting individual.